Ana Guadalupe

Ana Guadalupe was born in 1985 in Paraná, Brazil. She has a degree in English and Portuguese from UEM and currently lives in São Paulo. Her first book, Relógio de Pulso (Wristwatch), was published by 7Letras in 2011. Her poems were featured in anthologies, literary websites and magazines in Brazil, Spain, Mexico and Chile. Visit her blog: http://welcomehomeroxy.interbarney.com/

to analyze marisa
in another role
as the wife of a drug dealer
boxer’s lover
waitress that falls in love
for the sad and timid cardiac
whose entire body will shake
from touching marisa’s soft and smooth skin

marisa is a seller of panties
divorced with small children
dancer in the dark of the clubs
marisa is never in a good mood
and even so marisa has fun
turns 60 looking like 20
takes lemonade and soda
shots without losing a smile
stabs on the apartment balcony
more stabbing in a kitchenette
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the rain worsens
the week we were only taking
like a glass of water from the kitchen to the bedroom
from the bedroom to the kitchen
i ask that you don’t take it to the bathroom
only to the inside of your body
where it’ll reach viscera that I can’t
monster of the pond and the swamp
the rain will interrupt our only plan
but carefully calculating the interval
between you there on the rails
and me here on the bumps
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All poems were originally written in Portuguese by Ana Guadalupe.
All poems were translated by Ana Guadalupe and Jeremy Spencer.